The Example of Christ
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The Spirit of Sacrifice, 37-40
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Dear Brother,
At one time you made the suggestion that if the managers of our
institutions offered higher wages, they would secure a higher class of
workmen and thus a higher grade of work. My brother, such reasoning
is not in harmony with the Lord’s plans. We are all His servants. We
are not our own. We have been bought with a price and we are to
glorify God in our body and in our spirit, which are His. This is a
lesson that we need to learn. We need the discipline so essential to the
development of completeness of Christian character.
Our institutions are to be entirely under the supervision of God.
They were established in sacrifice, and only in sacrifice can their work
be successfully carried forward.
A Broadening Work
Upon all who are engaged in the Lord’s work rests the responsi-
bility of fulfilling the commission: “Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you.”
Matthew 28:19, 20
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Christ Himself has given us an example of how we are to work.
Read the fourth chapter of Matthew, and learn what methods Christ,
the Prince of life, followed in His teaching. “Leaving Nazareth, He
came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the seacoast, in the
borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and
the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee
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of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and
to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
up.”
Matthew 4:13-16
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